Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68947766

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned lab-grown meat, saying he will 
"save our beef" from the "global elite" and its "authoritarian plans".

"Florida is fighting back against the global elite's plan to force the 
world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs," Mr DeSantis said in a 
statement.

The first-in-the-nation law prohibits anyone from selling or distributing 
lab-grown meat in Florida.

Similar efforts are under way in Alabama, Arizona and Tennessee.

Lab-grown or "cultivated" meat was first cleared for consumption in the US 
in 2022.

The process of making cultivated meat involves extracting cells from an 
animal, which are then fed with nutrients such as proteins, sugars and 
fats. The end product is genetically indistinguishable from traditionally 
produced meat.

Studies have suggested that eating cultivated meat can cut carbon 
emissions and water usage, and free up land for nature, compared to eating 
traditionally produced meat.

The World Economic Forum, an international non-governmental organisation 
in Switzerland, has for years touted lab-grown meat as an efficient and 
environmentally-friendly way to produce food, and feed a rapidly growing 
global population. It has also promoted insect farming as a "credible and 
alternative protein source".

Lobbyists for edible insects have launched a campaign asking the US Food 
and Drug Administration (FDA) to add mealworms, crickets protein powder 
and other insect products to the agency's database of safe ingredients.

These unconventional food sources have become fodder for the US culture 
wars. Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene made headlines two 
years ago after she insinuated the government was monitoring whether 
Americans were eating fake meat grown in a petri dish.

At an event on Wednesday announcing the new law, Mr DeSantis said he was 
"fighting against an ideology that ultimately wants to eliminate meat 
production in the US and around the globe".

"In the state of Florida we've put down the marker very clearly; we stand 
with agriculture. We stand with the cattle ranchers," he said.

Florida's commissioner of agriculture Wilton Simpson applauded the 
legislation as a "tremendous step in the right direction".

"Florida is taking a tremendous step in the right direction by signing 
first-in-the-nation legislation banning lab-grown meat," Mr Simpson said.

But the move was also supported by an unlikely supporter of Mr DeSantis, 
Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania. It "pains me deeply" 
to agree with Mr DeSantis, Mr Fetterman wrote on X, "but I co-sign this".

Good Meat, a cultivated meat company which says it is the first in the 
world to sell lab-grown meat, wrote on X it was "disappointed" by the new 
Florida law.

"In a state that purportedly prides itself on being a land of freedom and 
individual liberty, its government is now telling consumers what meat they 
can or cannot purchase," it said.


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